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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Planned for future release

Total, Average and cound of selected cells in PAW and PASS UI (as known from Excel)

Excel is using a very simple but effective method to show the total , count and avererage of selected cells or cell ranges in its status bar. Adding this functionality across all available PA web based UIs (PAW, Cube Viewer, PASS) will significant...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

PAW: Checkbox data format

Checkboxes are very useful for mappings and for custom approvals. Now the users need to select values in picklist in custom approvals (like "approved" or "declined"), or to enter "0" and "1" in mappings. It would be much more comfortable for them ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Planned for future release

Report Queries Page should have a better way of organising queries, for example folders

An enterprise report will often contain many many queries. There will be the query that provides the actual content of the report, this is an important query/queries. But there are often lots of queries that could be thought of as noise - for exam...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Interactive Viewer Interface Enhancements

The interactive viewer interface has areas where it could be improved. Filter Button. A report author can disable the interactive viewer functionality and toolbar to prevent a report consumer using the interactive viewer functionality. If the inte...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Ability to create access groups and/or workspaces to control builder access to tools/agents

It will be great to enable the creation of distinct access groups and workspaces within a single tenant. This will ensure that different sets of users [runtime aspect tracked as https://watson-orchestrate.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/LSABER-I-1439] and bui...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 6 Planned for future release

Control of conversational UX: light/dark theme

A more polished, usercentered experience • Light/ Dark theme
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Planned for future release

Authentication API support for additional content types

The CP4D authentication API only accepts the content type application\json Customers identity provider can only send the request with application/x-www-form-urlencoded
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Planned for future release

Search Select Prompt User Interface is very poor.

The Search and Select prompt user interface is very poor and could do with a redesign to make it better. Some of the basic flaws are: On the search side, the Select all is a check box ui at the top of the list.One the selected side, the Select all...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Optional starter prompts that can be enable/disabled via ADK or UI

Improve user experience : Remove Starter Prompts Issue: Starter prompt cards waste valuable screen space for users who don't need them Solution: Add a toggle setting allowing to show/hide starter prompts via UI or set it through ADK, as of now the...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 4 Planned for future release